I was thumbing through the New York Daily News newspaper this morning, and alighted on the gossip page to see how the Billy Bob/Angelina divorce was going, and why Brittany was laughed offstage in Mexico City.
Halfway through, there was an item about Jenna Bush, who was seen by the London Mirror correspondent at the St.-Tropez hotspot Caves du Roy, drinking with two friends over a four hour period. “The threesome is said to have finished a $225 bottle of vodka and an equally pricey bottle of tequila at the club.”
I’m glad Jenna’s now doing her drinking somewhere it’s legal. It’s also nice that she’s not doing quarts of Miller in the parking lot at $2 a pop…if I had been certain my old man, or my buddies, would have been willing to stand a $550 tab for an afternoon’s binge, I might have done the same thing myself. Some might say that two bottles of booze is an awful lot for three people in one sitting, but hey, she’s a college student. And her friends might have been big burly guys, for all I know.
That’s all. I was going to put this in MPSIMS, but then decided to save someone the trouble of moving it later.
So a wealthy girl is on holiday in France, and she gets drunk.
Boy, that’s the breaking story alright. The Cote d’Azur is normally a place for the poor and sober. I’m sure they’re quite worried about their image now.
Coldfire, that’s about the best breaking news to be found in the NY Daily News. And that’s on a good day. Still, they have the best comics section in NYC. Not that I would pay just for that, but I try to scrounge up a copy now and then.
Exactly! Why shouldn’t she be spending her summer getting plastered in bars in St.-Tropez? God knows she can afford it, and it’s HER family’s money, after all, to spend as they see fit. Sure, she could be interning any place from The National Review to General Motors to the Heritage Foundation (hell, or Greenpeace or the Village Voice), but why bother? Any or all of those places will be happy to extend an employment offer just as soon as she graduates, and not for a receptionist’s position, either.
I think the only scandal here is that someone would pay $225.00 for a bottle of Vodka which, when you think about it, is distinguished from a bottle of cheap-ass Vodka only by its label. Sheesh, at least she could conspicuously consume something where the cost actually made a difference.
Although to cast a certain amount of skepticism on this report, the most expensive bottle of vodka I could find in a quick search of the internet was about $60.00. Even given the standard club-markup on beverages, someone was getting ripped off big time if they spent two bills on a bottle.
Also (and I’m not going to get into any huge anti-Bush thing there), that is a HELL of a lot of alcohol to drink in one night, isn’t it? I mean, I’m a college student and can put vodka and tequila away with the best of them, but TWO WHOLE BOTTLES? Between three girls? How much liquor are we talking about here? If they’re Irish Cream sized bottles, okay, but the first thing I thought of was handles of liquor, and I don’t know three non-alcoholics who can put away two handles in one night.
(Perhaps I’m just hanging out with the wrong people, and drink really cheap liquor, I don’t know)
You just fail to see the problem. An innocent and virginal young lass. The symbol of everything that is great about these here YOU-nited States, overserved and confused by the uncertain customs of a strange land, subject to being preyed upon my European men! Or even worse, French men.
Americans Unite! We must circle the wagons to protect this paragon of American womanhood.
A university student was DRINKING? Oh, my God. Call the police. Call Interpol. Get some AA counselors in here, and the Secret Service, and call an exorcist. And get Bill and Hillary, whose perfect little angel I am sure has never permitted a drop to pass her lips. Of booze, that is. A young girl drinking… I can’t believe it! George and Laura are complete failures as parents, obviously, because their daughter, as I’m sure you all know, is likely the only co-ed in the history of the world who has ever gotten really drunk.
Why, in my university days, we never drank alcohol. Even though the booze age here is 19, not one person on my campaus ever drank to the point of nausea and hurled in the stairwell coming out of Alfie’s, or got completely pie-eyed at Ritual on a Friday morning and showed up to class drunk, nor did my friends and I ever get so wasted at the Prince George that we knocked over two tables full of glasses and were banned for life. “Fie on alcohol,” you’d hear the students say on a Saturday night at Dr. Girdy’s when they absolutely were NOT quaffing $1 beers a dozen at a time, “We do not need that sort of thing because we are straight-laced, upstanding young men and women, and drinking is evil and bad and Satanic and will make your penis fall off, if you are a man, or your breasts, if you are a woman. Begone with your alcoholic temptations, sir!!”
No, I am quite positive that Jenna Bush’s getting drunk is a unique event in all the history of young adulthood.
Well, there’s nothing wrong with taking a summer
internship.
But then, there’s nothing wrong with having a good time with friends either. Granted, when I was in college, fun with friends equaled “knocking back Belgian beers at our favourite yet affordable bar”, but you can’t blame the girl for using the funds she has. Hell, with all the pressure from the US press, I can see why she’s off to France.
And I don’t see why she would owe anyone an explanation for her behaviour, provided everything was legal, and not too horribly immoral.
Thanks for the anecdotes, RickJay. Made me nostalgic for my own university days.
I think the reason everyone goes, “oh my god!” is Bush paints himself as such a goody goody. You know, WE’RE the group of family values. OUR children are not going to be corrupted.
But compare Jenna to Chelsea. Whatever you can say about Bill and Hillary, they must have done something right. I think Chelsea is a class act.
Yeah, Jonathan, except the woman apparently knows some place where they charge $225 bucks for a bottle of vodka, and can afford to go there.
Lemme do a little bit of math here…
$225 divided by $5.50 times 24 equals… roughly twenty million cans of Milwaukee’s Best, which is the only alcoholic beverage I could afford as a college student at Virginia Tech. That would have lasted me weeks.
And the bastards there at VPI made me learn math, in addition to acceptable hygeine. Can’t I be allowed to be jealous?
